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Originally Posted by SMHarman
This is also a reciprocal thing. NTL host sites. If all the proxies on the internet were switched off, then the bandwidth hitting NTLs web servers (their own ntlworld and all their customers) would increase and require more hardware and bandwidth. Bandwidth will become a more used resource, more scarse and more expensive.
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Bandwidth will only become more expensive as it is more used if the rate at which bandwidth cost is falling is slower than the rate at usage indreases, and it is not. Yes it is reciprocal but then so is the cost of running proxies (need software, needs hardware, needs people to configue and manage them). I still do not believe that the amount of money saved on external bandwidth (at either end) is greater than the cost of running the proxies in the first place (at either end). This is only going to become truer and truer over time as bandwidth costs continue to drop - yet costs in staff to maintain the proxies rise.